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Wandt, Dr. Sandra
Direct Tel: +49 621 43298-6014
Mannheim
Tel: +49 621 43298 6000 Fax: +49 621 43298 6100

Dr. Sandra Wandt is a German qualified attorney (Rechtsanwältin) and Associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Mannheim office. She joined the firm in 2014.

Sandra’s practice focuses on commercial and IP litigation with a particular emphasis on national and cross-border patent litigation (both offense and defense side). She represents clients before the major German patent infringement courts at trial and appellate level, in nullity proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court and the German Federal Supreme Court and before the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Her expertise covers all aspects of complex patent litigation in a wide range of technologies, i.e., telecommunications, automotive, biotechnology and medical devices.

Sandra studied law at the University of Mannheim, the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and the Goethe University of Frankfurt. During her legal clerkship she completed internships at an international chemical company and in the legal department of a German insurance company in Chicago. After her Second State Examination she obtained a doctorate degree from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (summa cum laude). Her thesis on “Party Autonomy in European Private International Law” was awarded with the Munich Law Faculty Prize in 2014.

Sandra has been ranked by Best Lawyers in Germany (Ones to Watch)/Handelsblatt for Litigation in their 2025 ranking.

Sandra is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), and the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltsverein).

  • University of Munich
    (Ph.D. in Law (Dr. jur.), summa cum laude, 2014)
  • State of Rhineland-Palatinate, District Court Frankenthal
    (Legal Clerkship, 2010-2012; Second State Examination, with distinction, 2012)
  • University of Mannheim, Lausanne and Frankfurt am Main
    (Law Studies, First State Examination, with distinction, 2010)
  • The German Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer Karlsruhe)
  • German
  • English